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We attempt to motivate and survey recent research on the use of “strong” valid inequalities and reformulation to solve mixed integer programming problems.
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Wolsey, L. Strong formulations for mixed integer programming: A survey. Mathematical Programming 45, 173–191 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01589102
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